"From Out of Air" is a set of six songs for soprano and piano.

The "Little Piano Book" is a book and video course that follows a step-by-step lesson format for learning how to play the piano. It is designed for beginners (from children to grown-ups) and no music experience is necessary to use the book. Each lesson builds on the previous one in a fun, clear, and easy-to-understand manner. There are 60 lessons in the book. You learn how to play the piano and read music through famous songs and pieces. It is designed to work very well in Kindle, iPad, iPhone, Smart Phone, Tablets, and eBook platforms. At the end of the book, you will be able to play the following songs and pieces in easy-piano arrangements: "Jingle Bells," "Scarborough Fair," "Ode to Joy," "Amazing Grace," "When the Saints Go Marching In," 'Yankee Doodle', "Simple Gifts," "Take Me Out to the Ballgame," 'Michael, Row the Boat Ashore," "Beethoven 5th Symphony Theme," "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star," "Love Somebody," "Kum-Bah-Yah," and many more songs. There are 10 Free, Streaming Video Lessons that coincide with the material presented in "The Little Piano Book." The Lesson Videos cover playing songs and pieces, piano technique, how to read music, basic music elements and fundamentals, and how to develop good practice habits.

The Mountain and Tidewater Songs are a set of six pieces for baritone, cello, piano, and violin. The songs are drawn from a series of poems by Daniel Mark Epstein, which appear in "No Vacancies in Hell." A deep sense of place, as well as the sweep, lyricism, and warmth of nineteenth-century American life inform both the poetry and music. The cycle charts the journey and reflections of an exile as he leaves behind the towns, countryside, and people he has known. These places and characters, like the apparitions of memory, become an interior landscape, where romance, adventure, duels, buffoonery, loss, villainy, and kindness all play out in ever-swirling reverie and drama.

The violin and cello parts are included.

Praise for Damon Ferrante's music:

Tim Smith of "The Baltimore Sun" calls Ferrante's music "focused and colorful...with an unexpected, decidedly poetic touch."

"If the tune has the elegance of traditional opera, the harmonization is very modern as the vocal lines climb and descend the melodic staircases that Ferrante has constructed for them."

Geoffrey Himes, "The Baltimore City Paper"

Mary MacCauley of "The Baltimore Sun" describes Ferrante's music as "ebullient and full of shifts of direction."

See a video for "The Mountain & Tidewater Songs" on Damon Ferrante's author page at Amazon (just click on his name here for the link).